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Using psycholinguistic features for profiling first language of authors

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2012-06, Vol.63 (6), p.1256-1269

2012 ASIS&T ;2015 INIST-CNRS ;Copyright Wiley Periodicals Inc. Jun 2012 ;ISSN: 1532-2882 ;ISSN: 2330-1635 ;EISSN: 1532-2890 ;DOI: 10.1002/asi.22627

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Title:
Using psycholinguistic features for profiling first language of authors
Author: Torney, Rosemary ; Vamplew, Peter ; Yearwood, John
Subjects: artificial intelligence ; Authorship ; Automatic classification ; Bibliometrics. Scientometrics ; Bibliometrics. Scientometrics. Evaluation ; Classification ; Computational linguistics ; Effectiveness studies ; English as a second language learning ; English as an international language ; Exact sciences and technology ; Feature extraction ; Information and communication sciences ; Information science ; Information science. Documentation ; International languages ; Language ; Language classification ; Languages ; Library and information science. General aspects ; Linguistics ; Native language ; natural language processing ; Profiles ; Profiling ; Psycholinguistics ; Psychological aspects ; Redundancy ; Sciences and techniques of general use ; text mining ; Writers
Is Part Of: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2012-06, Vol.63 (6), p.1256-1269
Description: This study empirically evaluates the effectiveness of different feature types for the classification of the first language of an author. In particular, it examines the utility of psycholinguistic features, extracted by the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) tool, that have not previously been applied to the task of author profiling. As LIWC is a tool that has been developed in the psycholinguistic field rather than the computational linguistics field, it was hypothesized that it would be effective, both as a single type feature set because of its psycholinguistic basis, and in combination with other feature sets, because it should be sufficiently different to add insight rather than redundancy. It was found that LIWC features were competitive with previously used feature types in identifying the first language of an author, and that combined feature sets including LIWC features consistently showed better accuracy rates and average F measures than were achieved by the same feature sets without the LIWC features. As a secondary issue, this study also examined how effectively first language classification scaled up to a larger number of possible languages. It was found that the classification scheme scaled up effectively to the entire 16 language collection from the International Corpus of Learner English, when compared with results achieved on just 5 languages in previous research.
Publisher: New York, NY: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1532-2882
ISSN: 2330-1635
EISSN: 1532-2890
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22627
Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection

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Using psycholinguistic features for profiling first language of authors

2012 ASIS&T ;2015 INIST-CNRS ;Copyright Wiley Periodicals Inc. Jun 2012 ;ISSN: 1532-2882 ;ISSN: 2330-1635 ;EISSN: 1532-2890 ;DOI: 10.1002/asi.22627

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